“Miss America!” they said, without missing a beat. Anderson, a black Philadelphia entrepreneur with ties to the NAACP and activist communities, knew that this would be impossible given the ...

The pageant aims to unite and amplify the Black community at Ole Miss. This year’s Miss Black University Pageant has crowned a winner, Hannah Olive. The third annual contest took place at the ...

Harriett Gilbert talks to the multi-award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey about her enchanting novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, which won the 2020 Costa Book of the Year.

All of the previous Black Miss Americas were honored at this year's National Urban League Conference's Women of Power Awards Jared Lyons/National Urban League Six of the nine Black Miss Americas ...

The Little Miss Black US of A pageant has returned to Maryland to inspire the next generation of young Black girls seeking to serve their communities. On July 26 to 27, the Hoff Theater ...

The RNC just included part of this clip, in which an Ole Miss fraternity member made monkey gestures at a Black woman, in its programming, praising how "not all college students have gone woke." ...

View of the Atlantic City skyline including the Showboat Hotel, which will host the Miss Black America Pageant on Dec. 16. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Alan Budman) The Miss Black America ...

The iconic Miss Black America pageant will return to Atlantic City, its original location, for its 55th anniversary on Dec. 16. This year, more than 50 Black women will be competing for the ...

Karen Arrington is the CEO and founder of Miss Black USA which is committed to redefining beauty standards and celebrating Black excellence. On Aug. 6, the pageant will air on Fox Soul and Fox5 ...

Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain, which won the prestigious Noma Literary Prize after its publication in 1965, epitomises atomic bomb literature. It is now considered a classic of modern Japanese ...

Will it rain during Memo’s birthday party next ... a coral reef into a theme park. – Gay Vernon “The Mermaid of Black Conch” by Monique Roffey spins the enchanting tale of a cursed ...

Also marking this experience are contrasting moments of joy, community and celebration in events like the little-known Miss Black Spokane pageant, which empowered young Black women in 1970s Spokane.